PROTEST BY SPORTSMEN.

Auckland Star, Volume LVI, Issue 216, 12 September 1925, Page 15

PROTEST BY SPORTSMEN.

ABOLITION OF DEEfe PROTECTION; Co-operative effort, on the part of all sportsmen in endeavours to prevent the absolute removal of all restrictions in the matter of red deer protection Avas uro-ed last evening at a meeting of the council of the Auckland Acclimatisation Society. It was suggested that the restrictions should be eased, or possibly removed, in districts where deer were damaging forestry plantations. Speakers i characterised absolute abolition as short-sighted folly. A committee consisting of Messrs. T. S. Withers, J. Parry and C. Allen was elected for the purpose of moving immediately to ! secure modification of the Government's I proposed action. ■The meeting approved a recommendation that 750,000 rainbovr trout fry from the Government hatchery at Rotorua should be allotted as follows: —Taumarunui 150,000, Te Kuiti 105,000, Te Awamutu, Otorohanga, Paeroa and Waihi 50.000 each, Putaruru 40,000, Thames, Okoroire and Matamata 30,000, Kawhia 27,500 Ohura and Hamilton 25,000, Papakura, Miranda, Cambridge, Ngaruawahia', Patetonga, Waitemata and Helensville 10,000 each, Morrinsville and Pukekohe 5000 each, Henderson, Ohinewai and Huntly 2500 each.